Does Eltacin lower blood pressure? At what pressure and how to take pills correctly?

In the modern world, there is an opinion that any medical drug, fighting one problem, creates another. This means that drugs can negatively affect internal organs that are not targeted by their therapeutic effect. And in most cases this is true. Taking some medications leaves damage to the kidneys, liver and nervous system. However, this usually does not apply to drugs whose action is not aimed at actively influencing any one problem, but simply at helping the body’s systems function better and cope with negative influences from the outside. One such remedy is Eltacin.

Eltacin tablets help improve the body’s condition during various diseases, as well as exposure to negative external factors. Therefore they are used in a wide range of cases. They are also used for hypertension, as well as pathologies caused by its course.

Brief information about the drug

The drug Eltacin is a complex of amino acids, each of which complements and enhances the action of each other, providing a pronounced synergistic effect.

It can be used as an independent medication or as one of the components of complex therapy.

Release form and packaging

The drug Eltacin is produced by the manufacturer in an easy-to-use tablet form. Sold in cardboard boxes, each containing 2 blisters (30 tablets each).

Packaging of Eltacin tablets

Composition of the drug

Eltacin tablets include 3 active components (amino acids):

• Glycine;
• L-glutamic acid;
• L-cystine.

The dosage of each ingredient is 70 mg. In addition, the drug also contains excipients (methylcellulose, magnesium stearate).

Cost and conditions of dispensing from a pharmacy

The cost of the drug depends on the number of tablets in the package. The average price for Eltatsin varies from 170 to 250 rubles.

You can purchase the drug in the pharmacy chain absolutely freely, without a doctor’s prescription.

Storage conditions

It is recommended to store Eltacin in a dark and dry place at room temperature. It is important to ensure that the first aid kit with tablets is out of reach of small children.

Analogues

In terms of the combination of active components of the composition, there are no direct analogs of the drug, but there are indirect ones that are partially similar in composition or have the same therapeutic effect. Similar medications produced by Russian or foreign factories include:

• Validol;
• Barboval;
• Cormenthol;
• Instenon;
• Kudesan Forte;
• Glycine;
• Alka-Prim;
• Pumpan.

Pharmacodynamics: increases or decreases blood pressure

The drug Eltacin is characterized by a wide spectrum of action. The pharmacological properties of the drug are determined by the action of the amino acids included in its composition:

1. Cystine - normalizes metabolism and metabolic processes. It has pronounced regenerating, restorative, detoxifying and antioxidant properties. Strengthens the immune system. It has a beneficial effect on the condition and functioning of the central nervous system.
2. Glycine - normalizes metabolism and activates protective inhibition processes in the central nervous system. Thanks to the ability of glycine to relieve muscle and psycho-emotional tension, Eltacin lowers blood pressure.
3. Glutamic acid is involved in protein metabolism processes. Positively affects the condition and functioning of the central nervous system. Stabilizes hormonal levels. Effectively copes with the manifestations of cerebral hypoxia. Improves the user's memory and cognitive abilities. Normalizes glycolysis indicators.

Glutamic acid is one of the components of Eltacin

The drug helps with blood pressure due to the ability of its active components to eliminate factors that provoke increased blood pressure, the development of vegetative-vascular dystonia and hypertension.

Eltacin for high blood pressure is also prescribed to patients to prevent undesirable consequences and complications characteristic of arterial hypertension.

However, doctors note that sustainable positive results can be achieved only with long-term, course use of tablets. It will not be possible to quickly reduce blood pressure with Eltacin, since the drug does not have a pronounced antihypertensive effect.

Analogs

There are no drugs similar in composition to Eltacin. You can replace the medicine if you purchase each component separately, but this method carries the risk of incorrect dosage of the components. A number of other drugs that can replace Eltacin have similar effects - antioxidant and antihypoxic:

1. Glycine.
2. Limontar.
3. Neurox.
4. Cardioxipin.
5. Emoxipin.
6. Emoxybel.

The company that produces Eltacin also produces Biotredin sublingual tablets.
They are indicated for decreased mental and physical performance, decreased cognitive function and normalization of emotional and mental state. Riboxin is often used in bodybuilding. This drug helps to increase energy potential, improve metabolism and stimulate biochemical processes, including in muscle tissue.

Cardiologists often replace Eltacin with other drugs intended to treat heart diseases. Validol for heart disease is the cheapest and most accessible medicine. It has antiarrhythmic, vasodilator and mild vasodilator effects. Cormentol sublingual capsules have a similar effect.

Valocardin for neuroses and VSD is prescribed to calm the nerves, normalize heart function, calm and normalize sleep. Valocardine is prescribed even to children, if necessary.

Eltacin can be replaced with nootropics and antipsychotics if it is necessary to normalize cerebral circulation, eliminate hypoxia, and normalize the mental and emotional state.

Eltacin can also be prescribed simultaneously with nootropics, as it improves their bioavailability. Can be used:

• Piracetam.
• Phenotropil.
• Etiracetam.
• Cerebrolysin.

But you should not replace Eltacin with other medications without a doctor’s prescription, especially if they are intended to treat heart diseases. Changing the drug, treatment regimen and course duration cannot be prescribed independently, so as not to cause serious complications.

Eltacin is a unique drug that has no complete analogues. This drug has a powerful effect and therefore it is prescribed to both children and adults for mental and physical stress, cardiac pathologies, and VSD.

Eltacin is necessary for athletes to give them strength to cope with heavy loads and to maintain the functioning of the heart, which wears out faster with regular training. A course of the drug allows you to quickly restore strength and eliminate the negative consequences of intellectual and physical overstrain.

Pharmacokinetics

The drug Eltacin is quickly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract and is evenly distributed throughout the user’s body, penetrating almost all internal organs and systems.

Glycine is transformed by the liver apparatus into carbon dioxide with water, the other two amino acids break down during metabolism.

The maximum concentration of the drug in the blood is observed after half an hour from the moment of taking the tablets. Most of the drug is absorbed and processed by the body. Only a small amount of the drug (about 10%) is excreted through the renal apparatus along with urine.

Therapeutic actions

The drug Eltacin for blood pressure is characterized by the following therapeutic effects and beneficial properties:

• Improving brain functions, memory, ability to concentrate;
• Moderately expressed hypotensive effect (lowering blood pressure);
• Antioxidant effect;
• Reducing blood cholesterol levels;
• Increased stress resistance;
• Immunomodulatory effect, activation of the body’s own defenses;
• Normalization and improvement of sleep quality, restoration of natural biorhythms;
• Hepatoprotective properties - a positive effect on the condition and function of the liver. Protection of the organ from the effects of adverse factors;
• Normalization of metabolism and metabolism;
• Strengthening the central nervous system, eliminating psycho-emotional instability;
• Optimal provision of the tissue structures of the body with the necessary amount of oxygen, prevention of the development of hypoxia, characteristic of hypertension, vascular pathologies;
• Stimulation of myocardial function, significant reduction in the likelihood of developing a heart attack;
• Increased physical endurance, energy potential, and ability to work of the user;
• Positive effect on the vegetative-vascular system, treatment and prevention of arterial hypertension, vegetative-vascular dystonia;
• Elimination of the negative effects of alcoholic beverages and other medications on the body;
• Regenerating properties that promote accelerated restoration of damaged tissues.

Eltacin for hypertension and elevated blood pressure is prescribed to eliminate characteristic symptoms and prevent possible negative consequences of pathologies and concomitant diseases.

The drug improves the functioning of the cardiovascular system and reduces the risks of complications of hypertension

Pharmacological group

Eltacin belongs to the group of combined antioxidant medications. The product contains three non-essential amino acids, represented by L-glutamic acid and L-cystine, which are direct regulators of metabolic processes. Under the influence of the active elements of the drug, the concentration of glutathione inside the cells increases and, accordingly, the degree of activity of enzymes dependent on this tripeptide increases. This leads to the normalization of natural redox processes. The main effects of Eltacin are:

• improving physical endurance;
• increasing cognitive abilities;
• acceleration of recovery processes after overwork or injuries (especially in children over 11 years old);
• improvement of metabolic processes in the brain during head injuries and/or strokes;
• increased contractility of the heart;
• normalization of sleep;
• improvement of psycho-emotional and social adaptation;
• suppression of the tendency to conflicts and attacks of aggression;
• increasing the body's resistance to various ischemic lesions;
• reducing the concentration of free radicals, malondialdehyde and peroxide compounds (antioxidant property).

What does Eltacin help with?

Doctors recommend taking Eltacin for blood pressure and the following clinical indications:

• Atherosclerosis;
• Chronic fatigue syndrome;
• Bronchitis;
• Pneumonia;
• Hypotonic disease (low blood pressure);
• Polio;
• Bronchial asthma;
• Hypertension (high blood pressure);
• Previous stroke;
• Frequent stressful situations, psycho-emotional instability;
• Down's disease;
• Visual impairment;
• Vegetovascular dystonia;
• Anemia;
• Encephalopathy;
• Alzheimer's disease;
• Heart muscle failure;
• Neuroses;
• Depressive states;
• Sleep disorders (insomnia or, on the contrary, excessive drowsiness);
• Recovery period after treatment for alcohol addiction;
• Delayed psycho-emotional development in adolescence;
• Protein deficiency in the body;
• Rehabilitation period after infectious diseases.

In most cases, Eltacin is prescribed as one of the components of complex therapy in combination with other medications!

Use for VSD in adults

Vegetative-vascular dystonia, or autonomic dysfunction, is a set of symptoms indicating a general malfunction of the autonomic nervous system of the body. This disorder is expressed by various signs, and most often these are dizziness, weakness, pressure changes, palpitations, digestive problems and others.

Effect of the drug and methods of administration

Many people do not pay attention to the symptoms of VSD, believing that these signs indicate fatigue, overexertion or lack of sleep. But in the absence of supportive treatment, the symptoms continue to increase, others join in, and the patient gets worse and worse. Against the background of VSD, other diseases can develop, for example, coronary heart disease, ulcers, diabetes mellitus.

The action of Eltacin stabilizes the balance between parts of the nervous system, affecting the cause of the disorder. The drug has the following properties:

• Stimulates the work of the heart muscle.
• Improves the quality of metabolic processes.
• Normalizes the psycho-emotional state.
• Relieves depression.
• Eliminates attacks of irritability and aggression.
• Normalizes sleep.
• Increases the body's resistance to stress and overexertion.
• Removes toxins and eliminates their harmful effects.
• Improves cognitive functions.

It is especially important to combat the signs of VSD in adolescents, which occurs in a more acute form than in adults. Body growth and hormonal changes lead to the development of several symptoms simultaneously

Tablets are dissolved 1 piece three times a day, regardless of meals. The duration of therapy for VSD should not exceed 3 months. Eltacin has a positive effect on the entire body, and many patients observe significant improvements while taking it. Symptoms of VSD are not only weakened, but also completely disappear with regular use of the drug.

Reviews from doctors about the tablets are mostly positive. Most neurologists and cardiologists prescribe this drug for VSD, heart failure, tachycardia and other disorders associated with the nervous and cardiovascular systems.

Reviews:

General practitioner Makarenko A.V.: “I often recommend Eltacin for VSD. Occasionally I also prescribe the drug to patients with physical fatigue or heart failure. The most important thing is that in case of (heart) failure, complex treatment is necessary, and Eltacin should be taken with other drugs or in between the main courses.”

Cardiologist Bronev G.V.: “Eltacin underwent several clinical studies and showed that a course of treatment of at least 1-2 months is able to restore cardiac activity, increase the overall tone of the body, and also reduce the intensity of symptoms in VSD.”

Pediatric neurologist Zhernovskaya E.O.: “I prescribe Eltacin to schoolchildren when intellectual abilities noticeably decrease, performance suffers and cognitive functions are impaired. Unfortunately, the drug is available only from the age of 11, but I prescribe Elkar for younger children.”

Some experts believe that Eltacin is not a drug, but simply a dietary supplement with an antioxidant effect, which can only be prescribed as a light maintenance agent:

Family doctor Deitch G.R.: “I do not consider Eltacin to be an effective drug in any of the cases listed in the annotation. This is a medicine from the “you need to drink something” series. It is rather a placebo, taken to calm patients, but not for treatment.”

Who is contraindicated for taking it?

Eltacin tablets have the following clinical contraindications:

• Increased tendency to exhibit allergic reactions;
• Individual intolerance and hypersensitivity to incidents contained in tablets;
• The patient's age category is under 12 years;
• Pregnancy;
• Breastfeeding.

In some cases, when the benefits outweigh the possible risks, doctors prescribe the drug to expectant mothers, but treatment of such patients must be carried out under the strict supervision of specialists and involves the use of minimal doses of the medication. Taking pills while breastfeeding is not recommended, since their effect on the baby’s body has not yet been fully studied.

Eltacin is contraindicated for pregnant and lactating women.

Contraindications

Most pharmaceutical drugs tend to have extensive lists of restrictions on their use in the attached instructions. Against this background, the drug “Eltacin” compares favorably with a minimal list of contraindications:

• individual hyperreaction to any of the active or auxiliary substances;
• children's category of patients - up to the age of 10–11 years;
• presence in the anamnesis of severe allergic conditions - for example, Quincke's edema, specifically to a subgroup of antioxidants.

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Possible adverse reactions

Instructions for use of Eltacin contain information about the following possible side effects that occur during treatment with the drug:

• Skin itching;
• Rash like urticaria;
• Redness and hyperemia of the skin;
• Reducing the acidity of gastric juice.

In most cases, due to its natural composition, Eltacin is well tolerated and does not provoke any adverse reactions.

Pros and cons of tablets

The drug Eltacin is characterized by the presence of the following advantages, which distinguish it favorably from its analogues:

• Wide range of applications;
• Minimum number of contraindications and side effects;
• Good compatibility with other medications;
• A large number of useful properties;
• Pleasant taste.

However, tablets also have certain disadvantages that you need to know about before starting a therapeutic course:

• Penetration of the active ingredients of the drug into breast milk and through the placenta;
• Lack of pronounced effect with short-term use;
• The inability to quickly stabilize sharply increased blood pressure with the help of the drug Eltacin;
• Short-term effect, involving the use of tablets several times throughout the day;
• The cost of the drug is quite high compared to analogues.

In addition, Eltacin has undergone an insufficient number of clinical trials and scientific studies to confirm its safety and effectiveness.

Price

You can buy Eltacin in Moscow or St. Petersburg via the Internet or regular pharmacy departments. The cost of the medicine depends on the markup level of the retail chain. Approximate prices for a package of 30 tablets will be:

Instructions for use

Eltacin tablets are intended for resorption under the tongue. It is necessary to hold the medicine until it is completely dissolved.

It is recommended to drink Eltacin for blood pressure and hypertension in a dosage of 1 tablet 3 times a day. For preventive purposes, the dose of the drug is reduced to 2 tablets per day.

The optimal dosage for blood pressure, as well as the duration of the therapeutic course, are determined by medical specialists individually. Consultation with a doctor is especially important if we are talking about a child, an elderly person, a woman expecting the birth of a baby, or a patient with serious health problems.

On average, the duration of therapy with Eltacin varies from 2 weeks to 3 months.

The medication regimen should be discussed with your doctor.

Important Notes and Recommendations

In order for the therapeutic course of Eltacin tablets to bring the fastest possible positive results without side effects, you need to pay attention to the following recommendations from specialists:

1. Refrain from consuming alcoholic beverages and alcohol-containing drugs during treatment, since ethyl alcohol significantly reduces the effectiveness of the therapeutic course;
2. Take the tablets at approximately the same time, keeping equal time intervals between doses;
3. Take the drug in the morning and evening;
4. Take breaks between treatment courses to avoid addiction.

If you experience any alarming symptoms while taking Eltacin tablets, you should definitely consult with a qualified specialist!

Drug substitutes

The following analogues of Eltacin are presented on the modern pharmaceutical market:

• Kratal;
• Tonginal;
• Cardiolin;
• A-Diston;
• Karvelis;
• Mildronate;
• Panangin;
• Limontar;
• Methyluracil.

It is important to emphasize that none of the drugs listed above is an absolute analogue of Eltacin. Medicines have different compositions, specific properties, indications and dosages, and application features. For this reason, if there is a need to replace Eltacin tablets with another drug, you should consult your doctor about this issue! The doctor will help you choose the optimal substitute that will be the most effective and safe in a particular clinical case!

Eltacin for high blood pressure is an effective drug that eliminates not only the symptoms, but also the causes of the development of hypertension. However, tablets are not suitable for quickly lowering blood pressure; a positive result will be noticeable only after 1-2 weeks of treatment. Despite the natural composition, good tolerability and minimal range of contraindications, before starting a therapeutic course with the drug Eltacin, it is strongly recommended to consult with a competent specialist.